1st Edition
Environmental Education in the 21st Century Theory, Practice, Progress and Promise
By Joy Palmer
Copyright 1998
300 Pages
by
Routledge
298 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
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Environmental education is a field characterised by a paradox. Few would doubt the urgency and importance of learning to live in sustainable ways, but environmental education holds nowhere near the priority position in formal schooling around the world that this would suggest. This text sets out to find out why this is so. It is divided into six parts: Part 1 is a concise history of the... Read more
Section 1: History and Development of Environmental Education; Section 2: The Global Agenda; Section 3: Perspectives on Theory and Research in Environmental Education; Section 4: Environmental Education: Structure and Practice; Section 5: The Global Scene; Section 6: Towards Progress and Promise in the 21st Century
Biography
Joy Palmer
'...an excellent read.' - Environmental Education
'Teachers who take their role as guardians of the future seriously should make an effort to read this book.' - School Science Review
'A readable and engaging book which provides a wide-ranging overview of thinking, writing and good practice. It presents a most powerful argument for environmental education to be placed at the core of the curriculum.' - Cambridge Journal of Education
